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<div>On Jun 18, 2013, at 4:16 PM, Mike Burns <<a href="mailto:mike@nationwideinc.com">mike@nationwideinc.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">You have agreed in the past that it is possible to advertise addresses for which the name in Whois does not match the name of the advertiser.</span></div>
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<div>The determination of appropriate verification of registration (for IP address </div>
<div>blocks to be announced in routing) is a decision made by service providers, </div>
<div>and varies widely.</div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">When you put the facts together- no legal obstacle to the transaction involving legacy space and no operational obstacle to the transactions- along with the pecuniary factors, you have a recipe for off-the books transactions
which would be invisible to the ARIN community.</span></div>
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The community has defined policies regarding transfers of address blocks, </div>
<div>and the registry is operated according to those policies. </div>
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<div>The assertion "no legal obstacle to the transaction involving legacy space"</div>
<div>depends on one's view of rights to IP address space. If you consider an IP </div>
<div>address block to be the unique entry in the Internet number registry system,</div>
<div>then there are likely some significant legal obstacles involved. Buyers seeking</div>
<div>to obtaining rights to something else via a purported transaction might want to </div>
<div>take care in obtaining a rather clear description of their purchase.</div>
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<div>FYI,</div>
<div>/John</div>
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<div>John Curran</div>
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<div>ARIN</div>
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